Hose-nozzle guide for walls



(No Model.)

J. N. BREWSTER. HOSE NOZZLE GUIDE FOR WALLS.

No. 488,624. Patented 13%.27, 1892 A 7'TOPNE Y8.

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HOSE-NOZZLE GUIDE FOR WALLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 488,624, dated December27, 1892.

Application filed February 25, 1892. Serial No- 422,'788. (No model.)

To all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES N. BREWSTER, of Coney Island, in the countyof Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Hose-Nozzle Guides for Walls, &c., of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a means whereby fires inbuildings and ships may be most successfully attacked, without thenecessity of the firemen entering the room, compartment or building onfire, and without aiding the draft of the fire by opening doors orwindows.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of partshereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a face View of a hose nozzle guide constructed in accordancewith my invention; Fig. 2 is a like view thereof, removed from the wall,and with half the casing removed; and Fig. 3 is a central verticalsection taken through the case and the wall in which it is fitted.

In constructing a hose nozzle guide in accordance with my invention, aball A is provided having a diametrical through bore B,

therein, for receiving an ordinary fire hose nozzle D, the diameter ofsuch ball being according to the thickness of the wall partition or deckin which it is fitted.

In the practical embodiment of my invention, a suitable support orsocket is provided for the ball, such support preferably being a casingO, in the form of two circular castings c, c, clamped together by meansof bolts passed through the flanges c, said half sections 0 havingconcaved inner faces 0 for accommodating and permitting a rockingmovement of the ball or guide proper A. The half sections 0, c, areformed with embrasured openings c in line with each other, for thepassage of the hose nozzle.

In the guide proper A, series of recesses a are produced, adapted toreceive the end of a bar or other proper tool for turning the ball tobring its bore B in register with the openings c of the case, or atright angles to said openings.

In order that the guide A may normally form an effective closure of therecess or opening in which it is fitted, I provide a lock E, which inthe form shown, consists of a gravity bolt arranged in the top of thecase in a vertical recess 0 therein, said bolt being adapted to enterthe passage or bore B when the ball is turned to bring such bore intoline with the bolt, asin Fig. 1. The bolt is raised by any suitable barinserted through a passage f, leading to the same from one or both facesof the casing G into a recess 6 in the bolt, and when the latter israised the guide A, may be rocked to bring the bore B at any angle tothe wall A, or equivalent partition or deck, and thus direct a streamstraightintoaroom or at any angle to such straight direction. The wall Amaybe of any material, the section shown in the drawings being merelyfor the purpose of illustrating the application of my invention. Forextra thick walls the casing C may have an extended flaring mouth 0', as

shown in Fig. 3. The flaring mouth C permits the fullest range of thehose nozzle and it gives free access to the passage f and the sphericalguide for turning it by a suitable tool inserted in the recesses a.

By the use of this invention, the firemen need notopen doors or windowsto attack'the fire, and need not expose themselves to the heat andsmoke.

Having thus fully described my invention, 1 claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent:-

1. The combination with the ball having a diametric bore, of the casing0 formed in two parts 0 0 having registering concavities in their innerabutting faces receiving the ball, embrasured openings 0 and flanges cbolted together by transverse bolts, and a locking bolt to engage thebore of the ball, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with the casing O having a spherical opening orrecess provided with opposite openings 0 and an extended flaring mouth 0concentric with one of the said openings, of the transversely bored ballwithin the opening or recess, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with the casing having opposite openings, of the ballmounted to turn in the casing and having a transverse bore and recessesa in the ball to receive the end of a tool for turning the ball,substantially as set forth.

4. The combination with a wall or the like, of a hose nozzle guidefitted therein and having a through bore for receiving a hose nozzle,the said guide being mounted to be rocked, for the purpose specified,and means forlocking the guide, substantially as described.

5. The combination with the casing having a spherical recess, oppositeopenings 0 a vertical recess .0 communicating with the spherical recess,and a transverse passage f leading from the face of the casing to thesaid vertical recess, of the transversely bored ball in JAMES N.BREWSTER.

Witnesses:

J. L. MOAULIFFE, v C. SEDGWICK.

